D. Marion Wilkinson

Kah-nung-da-tla-geh -- the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge -- had one foot in each of two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors; the second was a new world of forced change, war, and death that arrived with the white man. His visionary leadership led the Cherokee into the future as one nation. But the white tide continued, the Ridge's judgment was flung aside in favor of war, and his contribution to the Cherokee Nation was forgotten,...